Sentences with phrase «points were on our agenda»

And I am super excited to share what points were on our agenda this time and why I also had my first downs of wedding planning.

Not exact matches

World power is at a point where neither a single nation nor a block of countries will be able to drive their own agenda, Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, told CNBC on Tuesday.

Their agreement on a free - trade pact timed with the G20 meeting in Germany can be as substantive as it is symbolic, raising the key question of whether it might serve as a turning point for the United States as the Trump administration decides on its future trade agenda.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

But if you insist on your point of view I would expect that you could be one of those intended with such operations agenda to bring religions to fighting each other in this same method world wide reducing God believers on the globe..?

I am sure it is true and that is my point here I was commenting on the compassion of a person, not their religion, and momoya had to reveal his / her real agenda that has not pupose here, as I was not talking religion I was talking about compassion and the desire for one individual to help another.

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

Aside from also starting to post more photos on my blog (which idea I see you gleaned from monitoring my brainwaves as well), Dean and I were just talking about this story yesterday and how the point is not doing vs. being, but never being distracted from being a disciple; which is really just being close to Jesus, doing what he does, listening to what he says and going with his agenda instead of ours.

This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.

One point on their agenda, is for DSM - 6 to revoke the «exemption» that religious and spiritual beliefs have, when diagnosing «mental illness».

Preceding the press conference in Davos a conference lasting one and a half days was held in Zürich, and on the agenda were four main points:

On a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road recorOn a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road recoron the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road record.

We should not take them for granted, but still be confident going to the stadium of light with victory high on the gunners agenda, and 3 precious points!

However, due to a certain someone opening their deluded French mouth days before the game and feeling the need to point out our supposed weaknesses, I highly doubt being trounced three - nil in a semi-competitive fixture at Wembley Stadium with silverware up for grabs was high on their agenda.

Jose Mourinho's declaration that # 300 million was «not enough» to spend in the market in order to compete with a Manchester City side who «buy full - backs for the price of strikers» placed transfer fees on the agenda this week, even before Liverpool's head - spinning outlay on Virgil van Dijk ensured it remained the talking point.

A lot more than just three points will be on Arsenal's agenda when they will try to get back to winning ways during their home encounter against Newcastle United tomorrow.

One Friday when we were preparing Village Board agendas, she referred to the fourth - floor conference room at Village Hall as the «parlor,» and from that point on the rest of the staff decided to call the room the «parlor.»»

What you can do: If the other parent is open to communication, compare notes on your particular agendas and see if there is any point at which your conflicting desires overlap.

It's unclear at this point if the Assembly will consider holding hearings on the MTA, or if the prospect of holding hearings is even on the agenda tomorrow.

«While some of our members have differed in the past on some of the specific issues in the New NY Agenda, the Executive Committee unanimously takes this position because we understand and accept Andrew's point that this is a pivotal moment in the history of this state, similar to the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when leaders in the labor, civic, business and political arena must put aside their individual agendas for the good of the entire state.»

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

In the same vein, the group also applauded Kachukwu on the proposed 20 - point agenda by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saying it is commendable and a show of complete good faith.

De Blasio on Tuesday will present a 13 - point «Progressive Agenda» at the U.S. Capitol, calling for measures he's implemented or promoted in the city he governs.

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

In yet another sign allies of Senate Democrats will be using the 10 - point women's agenda this fall as a political bludgeon against Republican candidates, Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York are blasting GOP hopeful Rich Funke for comments made on the key abortion provision in the measure.

Somehow, this has been institutionalised; one agenda point on free schools and academies sees the «concerned» Lib Dem conference proposing to disagree with the coalition government.

This sounds a lot like Cuomo's explanation during the last legislative session on why he wasn't able to land a deal on all 10 points of his Women's Equality Agenda — including the abortion rights plank, which the Senate Republicans staunchly refused to allow onto the floor for a vote.

The state Senate on Thursday approved two bills that are part of the 10 - point women's agenda addressing human trafficking and addressed protections geared toward pregnant women in the workplace.

A new effort to boost the 10 - point women's agenda in Albany was announced on Thursday with the release of a «pledge» for candidates to sign and support the legislation.

The Governor's second biggest error wasn't the NY SafeAct, it was sadly getting sucked into the idea that the IDC Coalition would deliver on his legislative agenda, which as Stewart - Cousins points out hasn't really happened in a big way to date.

Other areas are ones Cuomo has proposed before, including the 10 - point women's agenda, which he first unveiled in 2013 and is running on as a key campaign issue.

It's worth noting Cuomo's numbers among women: His campaign is making a concerted effort to draw out those voters on his newly created ballot line, the Women's Equality Party, which is meant to highlight the 10 - point women's agenda.

«The fight is over this real estate program, but really it comes to something deeper, which is that the forever - fraught relationship between de Blasio and Cuomo — and indeed the fraught relationship between any mayor of New York City and any governor of New York really is at a low point with just nine days left in Albany's legislation session and with several items on the mayor's agenda sitting in Albany's lap,» Jimmy Vielkind, who covers the state government for Capital New York, told WCBS 880.

Hawkins said that if the Governor was serious about the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda he announced 18 months ago in his 2013 State of the State address, he would have backed bipartisan efforts to vote on the nine parts that have overwhelming majority support in both houses and then focus on flipping the Senate to Democratic hands to get the tenth abortion rights point adopted.

Any cost - saving efforts he discussed are a burden on local governments, all while he proposed additional costly mandates through his other policy agenda points.

Speaking on the Brian Lehrer Show, Ms. Quinn strongly denied that the Women's Equality Party was about anything other than advancing the Women's Equality Agenda, a 10 - point plan that would codify a number of anti-discrimination statutes as well as the legal right to an abortion.

The Lighthouse Point subsidies appeared on a draft agenda for Wednesday's PACB meeting, but were pulled at the Republicans» request after nearly three hours of back - and - forth between Cuomo aides and Senate staffers.

«Without the Pride Agenda doing advocacy and politics I think these issues have suffered,» said Glick, who pointed out that most of the state's LGBT organizations are now local nonprofits that are focused on providing services and sustaining their funding — not lobbying for legislation.

While Cuomo stood silent most of the summer on the Senate control issue, his running mate Kathy Hochul has been more vocal, calling repeatedly for a change in Senate leadership to help pass the governor's ten - point Women's Equality Agenda.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

It's still on the agenda, but it was getting to the point where I needed to use the almonds and move on with plans to buy fresh when I start playing with pastries again.

Why You'll Love It: Like Rachel's chapters in The Girl on the Train, this story is told from the point of view of a woman with secrets and an agenda of her own, which means her memories can't always be take at face value.

It is in these talking - head moments, carried over four interviews, each with a different agenda on the part of Sheen to draw out the enigmatic politician, throwing in some surprises to catch him off guard, when subtlety is employed in intricate detail, as viewers scan for the turning points that lead to the highly - publicized candor on the part of Nixon.

Protocols and agendas not only keep the focus on the students» work rather than the teachers» personalities, but they also assure that everyone is on point during their collaboration time.

Agenda of Lecture: - Modeling - Sets - Properties of univariable functions - Applications of univariable functions In this File you will find: - 1 Univariable Functions Lecture Power Point Presentation - 1 Univariable Functions Seminar plan - 23 Activities / Exercise on Univariable Functions with full answers for those exercises All teaching materials are used for Bachelor Level Students.

Item 4C on this month's CTC agenda is a case in point: self - congratulatory prattle from the BTSA industry (i.e., teachers who exited the classroom for higher pay and lighter duties).

Masingila and Doerr (2002) found that the tension between balancing the teacher's agenda with the desire to build on students» responses was a major point throughout the seminar discussions related to the case study.

In discussing the need for a kids - first agenda, Austin cites data points that show that less than half of 2016 graduates were eligible for the state's public university system and that 71 percent of LA Unified students were not proficient in math on state standardized tests last year.

If pitching to a publisher or agent is on your agenda, being able to deliver a ready - made audience is a great point in your favor.